Gail Carson Levine Quotes
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.
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Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
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John Hughes loved improvisers.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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The substance of painting is light.
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Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
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The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.
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I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
